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Arms of the four churches and four pillars of the Empire: Trier, Masovia, Cologne and Bremen, University of Manchester Library, German MS 2, p. 40.<\/p><\/div>\n

This post was originally published on The\u00a0John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Issue 94.2 of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, published by Manchester University Press<\/a>, contains a very special article by Dr Ben Pope. Titled \u2018The Empress, the Elector and the Painter\u2019, the article examines Rylands German MS 2, a sixteenth-century armorial in the Library\u2019s collection that Dr Pope has identified as a previously unknown work by the workshop of renowned Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Younger.<\/p>\n

Dr Pope shows that the armorial was produced for Elector August of Saxony, and that it was copied from an earlier armorial of c.1500 that had been in the possession of Lucas Cranach the Elder. Much of the original content and structure of this \u2018old armorial\u2019 has been preserved in the Cranach copy, and on this basis it can be located in a late-fifteenth-century south German tradition of armorial manuscripts.<\/p>\n

The old armorial was also closely linked to the Habsburg dynasty, and appears to have been dedicated to Bianca Maria Sforza, second wife of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. Cranach\u2019s copy therefore opens significant new perspectives on the relationships between aristocratic women and heraldic knowledge, and on the artistic patronage of Maximilian and Bianca Maria\u2019s court.<\/p>\n

Dr Pope\u2019s extensive and richly illustrated article draws attention to a previously unstudied item from the Library\u2019s extensive collection, which continues to be a source of inspiration to scholars from around the world.<\/p>\n

The manuscript has also been fully digitised and can be viewed online (at any time) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We are delighted that Ben will be returning to Manchester as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute later this year.<\/em><\/p>\n

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